Re: git-instaweb should 'just work' on Mac OS X

> I've investigated what it would take for git-instaweb to 'just work'  
> on
> Mac OS X 10.5 when running the command with no arguments. This would  
> be
> of benefit to many Mac git users since they shouldn't be expected to
> troubleshoot this problem. Here are the current issues at play:
>
> - lighttpd does not come with Mac OS X by default, so git-instaweb
>   currently exits with "lighttpd not found...".
>
> - git-instaweb doesn't fallback to using other web servers on the  
> system
>   if the default command doesn't exist.
>
> - Mac OS X does come with webrick and 'git-instaweb -d webrick'  
> _does_ just
>   work. It's probably slower than Apache though (?).
>
> - Mac OS X also comes with mongrel, which is a great alternative, but
>   git-instaweb doesn't support it.
>
> - Mac OS X's Apache installation is different than what git-instaweb
>   expects in a couple areas:
>   - the Apache binary is called 'httpd', not 'apache2', and git- 
> instaweb
>     only looks for the latter.
>   - the modules on Mac OS X live in /usr/libexec/apache2 but by  
> default
>     git-instaweb looks for /usr/lib/apache2/modules.
>   - Apache attempts to create its 'accept serialization lock file' at
>     /private/var/run/ but that path is only writeable by root (a  
> workaround
>     is to add a LockFile directive to the conf file that places it
>     in $fqgitdir/gitweb/tmp).
>
> I'm interested in fixing this to make the experience smoother for  
> Mac users.
> What is the community's preferred avenue of fixing this?